JSC2007-E-046476 (1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., one of three NASA astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury first manned suborbital flight, prepares for testing in a capsule of the U.S. Navy's centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. Original photo …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hugh Harris, the former director of Public Affairs at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, talks to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. …
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The pair participated in 50th annive…
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The pair participated in 50th annive…
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The pair participated in 50th annive…
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Mercury 7 memorial near Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Glenn and Carpenter launched from the pad on Atlas rockets inside Mercury capsules in 1962. The two a…
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn, left, talks with fellow Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter before they ride in the Corvette parade following the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which beg…
Ver en NASA ↗Samples of zinc-alloyed cadmium mercury grown on Earth (1g) and in space (ug) are shown at the same magnification. The space-grown crystal has a more uniform microstructure. Flown on STS-50 USML-1.
Ver en NASA ↗S62-06006 (3 Oct. 1962) --- Launch of the Mercury-Atlas 8 "Sigma 7" mission. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗In this dramatic scene, an unnamed crater in Mercury's northern volcanic plains is bathed in darkness as the sun sits low on the horizon. Rising from the floor of the crater is its central peak, a small mountain resulting from the crater's formation. A centra…
Ver en NASA ↗This image from NASA MESSENGER spacecraft shows a small portion of the interior of Scarlatti basin. The image is located just to the side of a large pit that lies along part of Scarlatti peak ring. This pit may have formed by explosive volcanism.
Ver en NASA ↗This chart describes the Skylab student experiment Objects Within Mercury's Orbit, proposed by Daniel C. Bochsler of Silverton, Oregon. This experiment utilized Skylab's White Light Coronagraph telescope to identify any objects orbiting the Sun within the orb…
Ver en NASA ↗S62-09048 (3 Oct. 1962) --- Aerial view of the USS Kearsarge, recovery ship for the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S61-04674 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S61-04692 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S62-00955 (February 1962) --- This is a view of John H. Glenn Jr. ingressing the Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S61-04669 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Earth view from the Mercury Redstone 2 (MR-2) spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S61-01673 (23 April 1961) --- View of the mating of Little Joe-5B launch vehicle with Mercury capsule #14. Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗S61-01925 (25 April 1961) --- View of the Mercury-Atlas 3 (MA-3) liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 25, 1961. The orbital test flight of the Mercury capsule did not achieve orbit and was destroyed after 40 seconds by Range Safety Officer when the i…
Ver en NASA ↗S61-02824 (21 July 1961) --- A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter attempts an unsuccessful recovery of the Mercury-Redstone 4 "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft. The spacecraft hatch opened prematurely, and astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, pilot, escaped into the water. The h…
Ver en NASA ↗S61-00199 (31 Jan. 1961) --- Recovery personnel aboard the USS Donner remove ?Ham?, a 37-pound chimpanzee, from a Mercury-Redstone spacecraft following the successful Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The primate's 420-…
Ver en NASA ↗S63-03960 (1 Feb. 1963) --- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, checks over the instrument panel from Mercury spacecraft #20 with Robert Graham, McDonnell Aircraft Corp. spacecraft engineer. It contains the inst…
Ver en NASA ↗S61-02826 (21 July 1961) --- A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter attempts an unsuccessful recovery of the Mercury-Redstone 4 "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft. The spacecraft hatch opened prematurely, and astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, pilot, escaped into the water. The h…
Ver en NASA ↗S62-00222 (20 Feb. 1962) --- View of astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and equipment specialist Joe Schmitt leaving crew quarters prior to Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission. Glenn is in his pressure suit and is carrying the portable ventilation unit. Photo credit: NASA
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